phonology phonetic casalus roderic f resolve hiatus cloth page garland publish outstand dissertation linguistic study investigate two alternative language resolve sequence adjacent vowel hiatus deletion one vowel coalescence adjacent vowel form third vowel combine feature both original although exist phonological theory predict relatively few restriction behavior either process survey language reveal number surprise previously unreport limitation behavior example although deletion first two vowel extremely common apply position deletion second vowel restrict certain welldefine morphosyntactic context boundary between root suffix restriction explain term functionallymotivate constraint favor preservation phonological material certain prominent position root morpheme case coalescence study reveal surprise correlation between structure language s vowel inventory result merge high nonhigh vowel correlation explain term novel theory acoustic height feature whose detail specification determine functionallymotivate constraint sensitive number vowel height within particular language e mail info garland com 